.Andrea Adelson, ESPN Senior WriterAug 22, 2024, 07:00 AM ETClose ACC reporter.Signed up with ESPN.com in 2010.Graduate of the College of Florida.In the lead-up to Sunday's kickoff between Fla State as well as Georgia Technician, each universities invested 17 months bring in spread sheets, filling out documents and also triple-checking customs guidelines to make certain they loaded all the essentials for their transatlantic trip.Uniforms? Check.Cleats? Check.Ranch suiting up? Umm, check?The Ramblin' Wreckage? Regretfully, back in Atlanta.Renegade, Osceola and also their ablaze lance? So that pesky quarantine concern had been actually solved.Even without their very most well-known pregame traditions taking a trip along with them to Dublin, Florida State and Georgia Technician will headline Week 0 with every thing they need to have to participate in football due to a comprehensive behind the curtain effort that Georgia Specialist supervisor of soccer procedures Josh Thompson refers to as "not for the pale of heart." In each, the colleges integrated to take 238 crates analyzing more than 40,000 extra pounds-- jam-packed as well as transported on cargo planes recently-- loaded with everything from game time tools to sporting activity medicine basics, protein particle, treats including Goldfish as well as of course, dressings that are actually not on call in Dublin.Editor's Picks2 Related" There is actually no space for inaccuracy right here," mentioned Jason Baisden, Fla State assistant sports supervisor for tools operations. "The moment our company exist, our company exist. We can't return or can not contact and also mention, 'Hey, deliver this along with you.'" Each colleges started to prepare yourself for this activity in March 2023, quickly after it was actually revealed. Florida State supervisor of football procedures Bruce Warwick had belonged to a number of international activities in his previous stops in the NFL, so he actually had a great concept concerning what moving a whole staff much more than 4,000 kilometers away would certainly entail.Beyond packing up all the important equipment, tickets would must be actually safeguarded, several in-person web site check outs to the team lodging will need to have to be created (consisting of food tastings) and also communication with authorities in Ireland would have to be actually exact. Absolutely nothing-- like supposing that a United States biscuit and an Irish cookie were the same-- may be delegated possibility." I had to learn to speak their foreign language," Baisden pointed out. "Like, it's not an outfit to all of them, it's a package. It is the English foreign language, however our team needed to be sure absolutely nothing was lost along with the interpretation of what our experts are actually doing." Baisden and also Thompson helped make phone call to individuals they understood at Notre Dame as well as Naval force, two schools that had actually earlier played in Ireland. Baisden requested for their carnet, a document that assists in temporary global imports and exports. Basically, the carnet lists every item that is actually brought right into an overseas country line by line, along with particular numbers.Florida State AthleticsWant to take snacks for the crew? Not a problem. But every snack food, coming from applesauce to biscuits, should be listed. The very same opts for rolls of strip, gloves, healthy protein grains. You intend to take it? You have to note it.At Fla Condition, Baisden ended up being the factor individual in between departments. In January, he asked the sporting activity nutrition, sporting activity medication, artistic video clip, weight training, radio program and sports information crews to start determining what they absolutely needed to bring with them.He described the method as preparing for "an abroad bowl excursion." Yet the information with which every thing must be actually itemized goes far beyond any type of bowl vacation preparation, where colleges can just arm their tools trucks and also get on their technique. For this vacation, Baisden tagged every dog crate along with what it was actually for-- hotel, practice, game.International travel is actually why the Ramblin' Wreck as well as Insurgent and also Osceola were actually left behind in your home. Irish officials had asked about their schedule, and each universities possessed major discussions regarding discovering a way to do it.Renegade, the legendary horse ridden by Osceola prior to every Fla State home activity to grow an ablaze lance at midfield, would certainly have had to sequester on the way back to Tallahassee as required by international requirements. Therefore, the horse would certainly possess been actually not available for the home opener versus Boston ma College on Sept. 2. Plus, this is practically a Georgia Tech home game.A gold and also white colored 1930 Ford Style A Sporting activity Coupe known as the "Ramblin' Wreck" has actually led the Yellow Jackets onto the field for each home activity given that 1961. The Wreckage would have to take a trip on a ship to come to Ireland. The traveling time home would certainly possess indicated it, too, would have been actually unavailable for the home opener against Georgia State on Aug. 31. There had actually been actually discussion about using an Irish "cousin" of the Accident, a Peugeot-type from Dublin, but the suggestion was nixed.There was plenty even more that must be gone over to get to the goal. Florida Condition found yourself must acquire 85 keys for its own gamers Georgia Technology needed to receive 70 in complete in between players as well as staff. Possibly the absolute most unforeseen obstacle the staffs dealt with was making sure they would manage to use the new technology allowed beginning this period-- coach-to-helmet communication as well as apples ipad on the sideline.The headset systems coaches make use of on the sideline in the United States do not function overseas since they utilize various superhigh frequency. Each colleges needed to rent brand-new devices, and that indicates a various belt pack for trainers to obtain made use of to. Florida State practiced with them throughout skirmishes so the coaches could possibly begin to obtain a taste of them.Thompson claimed the schools needed to secure various product lines of regularity for the interaction headsets to operate. The ipad tablets required sychronisation along with Aviva Arena and also regional sellers for certain fiber product lines utilized to update video directly. The colleges have actually had once a week calls with the ACC as well as various vendors to see to it every little thing is ready to go. Every thing is going to be examined Friday.Florida State Sports" The coaches do not just like adjustment. I don't such as modification," Thompson stated. "Everybody is an animal of of practice. I would like to walk right into the arena when the group strolls in and see to it everything is carried out. I don't desire to need to be actually running around panicking, 'All right, just how are our company going to manage this?'" The staffs underwent various airport terminals to have their payload flown over, all at the instructions of Aer Lingus, the game's headline sponsor. Florida Condition packed up a vehicle last week that left for Orlando, where its cages were after that put on freight plane pallets phoned "cookie pieces" for worldwide traveling and afterwards flown to Dublin. Georgia Specialist possessed its freight happen an airplane to Chicago, and after that on to Dublin.Everything flown over arrived before the groups entered Thursday early morning. Each group sent an advancement team early to open dog crates as well as begin sorting products for make use of at the hotels and resort or even coliseum. Equipment supervisors established their corresponding locker rooms for Thursday strategy. Moreover, both teams possessed numerous situations of Powerade and also canteen straight shipped to both the hotels and resort and also stadium.The accommodations were chosen for their correlations to ordinary roadway accommodations. They must have big sufficient rooms available for staff conferences, but additionally food that tasted like home. Warwick said grits, for example, were actually a nonstarter given that the chefs could possibly not cook all of them to requirements. Fla State gamers have an alikeness for ranch suiting up, A1 steak dressing and also Tabasco, things inaccessible in Ireland, therefore those certain condiments were actually packed." The food is the greatest challenge due to the fact that they like what they such as as well as they understand what they understand," Warwick claimed. "Our team made an effort to maintain it as Americanized as possible." The crews on their own left behind the United States on Wednesday night, yet even their departures looked various. For residential video game travel, both teams look at TSA surveillance screening at their particular coliseums prior to boarding buses and also moving to their charter flights.But for a global journey, both staffs need to look at the routine security line at their respective airports. It is actually one point for Fla Condition to look at its own tiny local flight terminal in Tallahassee. Yet merely envision the 289-person Georgia Tech journey party pulling up to Concourse F at Hartsfield-Jackson International Flight Terminal in Atlanta as well as undergoing security.Aer Lingus, the label supporter of the game, must obtain unique permission to safeguard an entrance. Thompson claimed he has actually been assured there will certainly be extra surveillance streets ready for obtain Georgia Technician via successfully. He intends to utilize a "sheathing device" where he separates the players in to groups, along with one designated the leader as well as responsible for making sure everybody has their passports.Players will certainly be actually reminded regularly approximately carry out's and carry out n'ts if they are actually carrying baggages, including the size of allowable fluids." I can't wait to find when I'm the final person that undergoes the TSA line what all was taken in the course of that time," Thompson said.Now photo this upon landing: Players loafing the luggage slide carousel, expecting their player equipment bags. Those bags needed to take a trip with them due to the fact that both crews engaged in completely as much as their departure time. So the bags acquire checked onto the aircraft upon airport arrival, for pick-up in baggage case, aside from their very own individual luggage. For this excursion, Fla State got its players tailored roller traveling bags. Each teams are going to have a light technique at the arena after they come in, along with the major objective to get every person adapted to the five-hour time modification. Georgia Specialist instructor Brent Key, who went to Ireland for a game as a UCF aide in 2014, claimed he does certainly not wish to create the excursion any bigger than it has to be-- reasoning his previous international take in." Our experts overcoached those children," Secret claimed, describing UCF's 26-24 reduction to Penn Condition. "Our experts made an effort to provide a take in. Our team took them to various locations, took all of them on trips and it was actually simply too much stuff when you are actually examining there to play football activity. Do you know what makes a wonderful experience? Succeeding." Therefore, Georgia Technology will fly home after the activity as it has a limited turnaround to the complying with week. Due to the fact that Florida Condition uses a Monday night, train Mike Norvell determined to have the crew remain on Sunday for some sightseeing prior to returning to Tallahassee.Though that method is various, planning the strategies in the lead-up to the game has been identical. The colleges have been in continuous interaction, yet there will definitely be anxiousness upon landing, during the course of the video game and also postgame, too. Every little thing has to be actually repacked for travel back home, and also at customs Sunday evening. In both situations-- trip to and coming from-- each colleges must count highly on folks they have actually never ever fulfilled to get the job done." Anytime as well as every time I take a trip, I panic if my bag is actually going to receive certainly there, so you definitely bother with that," Thompson said. "You are actually relocating practically 300 folks at once. So you just must make certain it is proper as well as right.".